ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — In a world where children spend more time than ever on devices like iPads and laptops, Ector County ISD is transforming that screen time into valuable learning with a new math ...

Introduction Do you ever use math as a tool to solve interesting problems? In the 1970s math was often taught with simple worksheets. One teacher was looking for a way to help his students have more ...

At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...

My family has been longtime fans of the Museum of Math, meeting the team behind this hands-on museum long before it had a ...

Here’s how Ramanujan Maths Park in Andhra Pradesh is transforming National Mathematics Day with hands-on exhibits, models, ...

Peter Taylor receives funding from: The Mathematics Knowledge Network; The Fields Institute;The Canadian Mathematical Society; The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Queen's ...

Pi is undoubtedly the world's most popular irrational number. And that's because it's unequivocally cool — I mean, what other mathematical constant has its own day? On its face, pi is a simple concept ...

While literacy is often seen as a cornerstone to scholastic achievement, and many parents devote a lot of time and energy into nurturing their small child’s love of reading, studies show that ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom’s Guide and Business ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...